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Where the Money Is **** (2000, Paul Newman, Linda Fiorentino, Dermot Mulroney) – Classic Movie Review 2,018

Paul Newman stars in the 2000 film Where the Money Is as an old bank robber in an Oregon nursing home, with Linda Fiorentino as his nurse, who starts to suspect he isn’t as sick […]

Dec, 30

Carry On Cabby *** (1963, Sidney James, Hattie Jacques, Kenneth Connor, Liz Fraser, Charles Hawtrey, Jim Dale, Esma Cannon) – Classic Movie Review 1907

  Director Gerald Thomas’s 1963 comedy Carry On Cabby was planned as a non-Carry On film called Call Me a Cab, which in fact is neatly the film’s last line spoken by Sidney James as Charlie Hawkins, […]

Dec, 01

Two-Way Stretch ****½ (1960, Peter Sellers, David Lodge, Bernard Cribbins, Liz Fraser, Lionel Jeffries, Wilfrid Hyde White, Maurice Denham, Beryl Reid, Irene Handl) – Classic Movie Review 1,843

The 1960 perfect robbery comedy film Two-Way Stretch is a Peter Sellers classic packed full of quirky vintage fun, realised by a brilliant ensemble of lovable British comic actors. Director Robert Day’s 1960 British perfect […]

Nov, 15

The Drop **** (2014, Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, James Gandolfini) – Movie Review

Tom Hardy and James Gandolfini are both excellent in the well shot, tense and atmospheric 2014 character-driven thriller The Drop. Tom Hardy and James Gandolfini are both excellent in a well shot, tense and atmospheric […]

Nov, 13

Wonderland *** (2003, Val Kilmer, Lisa Kudrow, Kate Bosworth, Josh Lucas) – Classic Movie Review 1687

In an excellent tour-de-force, Val Kilmer continues his bid to restore his reputation in co-writer/director James Cox’s wild, extreme 2003 movie about a real Hollywood murder. It focuses on the 70s porn movie superstar John […]

Sep, 19

Another Day in Paradise **** (1998, James Woods, Melanie Griffith, Vincent Kartheiser) – Classic Movie Review 1657

  The amazing James Woods turns in one of his most stonking performances as the leader of a thieving gang of white-trash lowlifes in this scalding 1998 thriller from director Larry Clark, maker of the […]

Sep, 08

The Underneath *** (1995, Peter Gallagher, Elisabeth Shue, Alison Elliott) – Classic Movie Review 1578

Peter Gallagher stars as Michael Chambers, a gambler and former convict who comes back to Austin, Texas, to celebrate the wedding of his mother (Anjanette Comer). While in town he tries to reignite the old flame with his […]

Aug, 22

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